Fiona Shaw Quotes

25 quotations by Fiona Shaw

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

One moment cannot be the most important.

My mother taught me to read.

I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need to find out what it is I want to do.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

I mainly drink wine and eat out a lot.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.